Interview with PolyIC at the Printed Electronics USA event. PolyIC develops and markets products based on the platform technology printed electronics. PolyIC offers products from the field Touch Sensors & Passive Devices. Touch Sensors & Passive Devices Touch Sensors based on the PolyTC® technology offer transparent, conductive and flexible possibilities for touch screens and capacitive keys in any variants. This technology also enables the setup of flexible circuit structures as passive devices for a variety of further applications. For more information see http://www.polyic.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
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Lawter Harima Nanojet nano conductive inks for RFID and touch panel displays
Posted by – April 11, 2016
Lawter, a Harima Chemicals, Inc. Company at the Printed Electronics USA event. Lawter serves the graphic arts, adhesives, specialty coatings, aroma chemicals and the synthetic rubber industries. Lawter produces nano conductive inks for applications such as RFID antennas and touch panel displays for tablets and smart phones. For more information see http://www.lawter.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
AIA Labs, Architects of Intelligent Applications (A.I.A.)
Posted by – April 11, 2016
Interview with Architects of Intelligent Applications (A.I.A.) at IDTechEx Wearable USA. AIA designs, develops and manufactures wearable technology. Located in Toronto, Canada AIA’s facilities include a printed electronics laboratory, design studio, cut and sew floor and computerized knitting division. For more information see http://www.aialabs.ca and http://www.IDTechEx.com
SecureRF, public-key security for IoT, Authentication for wireless sensors, NFC, FPGA
Posted by – April 3, 2016
SecureRF at the Internet of Things USA exhibition. SecureRF provides security and privacy solutions for the smallest devices on the Internet of Things including wireless sensors (Bluetooth LE/Smart), ARM Cortex M0/M0+/M3/M4 processors, FPGAs, ASICs, SoCs, NFC, RFID, and MCUs. The company’s ultra-low energy and fast Public‐Key methods provide identification, authentication, data and brand protection and anti-counterfeiting.
Komura Tech 2µm Printed Electrodes and Bio-sensors at Printed Electronics USA
Posted by – April 3, 2016
Komura-Tech at the Printed Electronics USA exhibition develops printed electronics, a fusion of the latest printing technologies and electronics technologies. Komura-Tech’s scope encompasses not just electrical equipment and communications but also medical care, the environment and more.
Witt Limited: Energy Harvesting in Ocean for the Grid
Posted by – April 3, 2016
Interview with Witt Limited at Energy Harvesting & Storage USA. Witt Limited has created a scalable energy harvesting device called the WITT which captures energy from motion. Whilst there are numerous applications for the technology, Witt Limited are initially creating WITTs to power small vessels and navigational buoys from sea motion. This will be followed by a smaller WITT to generate power from human motion when the right development partners are identified. Future applications could extend to generating grid scale power from the ocean. For more information see http://www.witt-energy.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
Alta Devices Flexible Solar Cells using Gallium Arsenide
Posted by – April 3, 2016
Alta Devices manufactures thin flexible solar cells using Gallium Arsenide, holding the world record in efficiency (29%) that convert light into electricity, which can be used in unmanned systems, consumer electronics, Internet of Things, Wearables, automotive, remote exploration, or anywhere that size, weight, and mobility matter. Alta Devices holds world records for both cell and module single junction conversion efficiency. For more information see http://www.altadevices.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
FlexEl Flexible Batteries
Posted by – April 3, 2016
FlexEl develops battery solutions for companies that have unique power, biocompatibility, form factor or other requirements. FlexEl aim to facilitate the market entry of emerging technology products through battery innovation. For more information see http://www.flexelbattery.com and http://www.IDTechEx.com
Aerotain, airship drone for advertising and events
Posted by – March 16, 2016
Aerotain, a Spin-Off of one of Switzerland’s top universities ETH Zurich, shows a flying robot called Skye that is safe enough to fly above crowds and be touched in midflight. Helium provides uplift, even if technical problems occur and thus does not hurt anybody. The individually branded hull together with a live stream allow the audience to experience the brand. This is a new tool that marketing agencies and event organizers can consider as one great attention grabbing display/branding/projector drone. You can find out more about it at http://aerotain.com and follow them on https://twitter.com/aerotain
Prof. Abhishek Mishra, Uttar Pradesh Minister of Vocational Education and Skill Development
Posted by – March 15, 2016
Category: Exclusive videos, CeBIT
Launching the largest skill development mission in India, the best mission program in India, Proffessor Abhishek Mishra, Minister of Uttar Pradesh Government looks after Vocational Education and Skill Development, talks about the strategies being used in India to attract investments into India to manufacture consumer electronics and high tech products, cars, trying to provide skilled manpower to companies who want to bring in their experts and setup subsidiaries in India. Building all the infrastructure to enable the expansion of IT manufacturing in India.
SkiAR Augmented Reality for Outdoor Winter Sports
Posted by – March 15, 2016
Winter sports like skiing and snowboarding are often group activities. Groups of skiers and snowboarders traditionally use folded paper maps or board-mounted larger-scale maps near ski lifts to aid decision making: which slope to take next, where to have lunch, or what hazards to avoid when going off-piste. To enrich those static maps with personal content (e.g., pictures, prior routes taken, or hazards encountered), Anton Fedosov (twitter: @antonfedosov), HCI researcher, Università della Svizzera italiana (twitter: @USI_INF), Lugano, Switzerland developed SkiAR, a wearable augmented reality system that allows groups of skiers and snowboarders to share such content in-situ on a printed resort map while on the slope.
Find out more at: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2875234&CFID=591558081&CFTOKEN=65601379
Nick Hayek, CEO of Swatch, unveils Belenos Battery, 50% higher capacity, flat and flexible
Posted by – March 15, 2016
Belenos Clean Power, a subsidiary of Swatch Group, has developed a new type of battery based on vanadium, with electrical energy storage capacity up to 50 to 100% higher capacity than the battery technologies that exist today. Electric cars and drones might start using Belenos batteries starting this year already, production of Belenos batteries will start this Summer by Swatch Group subsidiary Renata in Switzerland, further Belenos batteries may also get produced in Asia depending on the demand. George Clooney and the Swiss astronaut Claude Nicollier are on Belenos’s board of directors, Belenos is 51% owned by Swatch Group and will be put on the Hong Kong stock market with a possible valuation between 5 and 20 Billion dollars. The goal is to power Swatch Smartwatches and other wearables with the Belenos battery, creating a Smartwatch and wearable technologies that never needs to be recharged.
As a half-Swiss, I hope Swatch will release smart watches to put Apple Watch to shame, made in a really smart way, with Swatch’s own ultra low power displays or with E Ink behind the dials of a Swatch Sistem51 based automatic watch, and with low power Bluetooth and Novasentis flexible actuator vibrations in the wrist band. Part of the watch may function as energy harvester, perhaps solar on the watch casing/sides, to recharge the Bluetooth low energy and E Ink or other low power display.
Windows 10 IoT Core runs on Raspberry Pi and Inventec Avatar advanced Bluetooth Beacon
Posted by – March 10, 2016
Category: Internet of Things, Development Boards, Exclusive videos, Qualcomm, Broadcom, MWC, Windows
Microsoft Windows 10 IoT Core is Windows 10 for the IoT market. Windows 10 IoT Core is free, Windows 10 IoT Core Pro is licenced and sold to OEMs like Inventec here showing their Qualcomm APQ8009 powered Inventec Avatar also connecting to Microsoft Azure, bringing advanced Bluetooth beacon platform with Wi-Fi cloud access to upload the log on Azure. Windows 10 IoT Core is also shown running on Raspberry Pi. From a Universal Windows app a developer can talk directly to the sensors and modules on the Raspberry Pi. Windows 10 IoT core is Windows 10 that can run on lower spec ARM devices, taking up about 200megabytes of space, can run on just 256MB RAM.
Microsoft Windows 10 Continuum on ARM
Posted by – March 9, 2016
Microsoft is proud to present their Windows 10 Continuum running super smoothly on Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 and Qualcomm Snapdragon 810 based Microsoft Lumia 950 and Microsoft Lumia 950XL, the Microsoft branded devices resulting from the acquisition of Nokia, following a huge work by Microsoft together with their partners such as Qualcomm, to bring a full Windows 10 experience to ARM, powering the future of the Desktop and the Laptop through an ARM Powered smartphone, outputting a full Windows experience to an external display using DisplayPort over USB Type-C through a desktop dock or a laptop dock.
Backwards compatibility of x86 Windows apps can be supported through a cloud solution, such as the one HP is providing with their HP Elite x3 Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 based Windows Continuum phone coming out a few months from now.
I believe the best solution for Microsoft will be to support Windows 10 on Android, so when you dock an Android phone through a desktop dock or a laptop dock, then Microsoft needs to make sure that a full Windows 10 Continuum on ARM experience can be outputted from the Android phone on that secondary display. Microsoft needs to make Windows 10 an “external-only” home replacement which needs to work on any Android device.
DisplayPort 1.4 Brings 8K Support and Lossless Video Compression over USB Type-C
Posted by – March 9, 2016
Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) Executive Director Bill Lempesis (who I previously interviewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4PGoVR3ENo) introduces DisplayPort 1.4 A/V standard, which VESA developed, with input and cooperation from more than 230 global members. DP 1.4 includes a number of next-generation features, including capabilities for High Dynamic Range (HDR) and 8K video across the USB-C connector. It also features, for the first time, VESA’s Display Stream Compression Standard (DSC) standard, which enables up to 3:1 video compression with visually lossless performance. Stephane Boisclair, senior hardware designer for Hardent, provides an in-depth description of the latest DSC specification update, v1.2. A VESA member company, Montreal-based Hardent develops IP cores to support DSC encoding and decoding. DSC 1.2, which supports up to 16 bits per color and HDR, has great implications for high-end TVs and PCs, as well as automotive applications, where the growing number of camera sensors requires less cabling and greater range.
Linaro Connect keynotes: George Grey, Linaro CEO and Eric Hennenhoefer, ARM VP Research
Posted by – March 9, 2016
George Grey, Linaro CEO, gives the opening keynote of Linaro Connect Bangkok. He discusses Linaro’s activities across the ARM ecosystem from sensor devices to the data-center. New initiatives including end-to-end open source software platform solutions, ARM Based Developer Cloud, $299 Lemaker Cello using AMD 64bit Server SoC following the 96Boards Enterprise Edition specs are announced and demonstrated.
Eric Hennenhoefer, ARM VP Research talks about ARM Reasearch in the High Performance Computing area and more.
World’s cheapest 64bit Desktop PC: $25 Unuiga S905 with Remix OS on Indiegogo
Posted by – March 7, 2016
Launching now on Indiegogo http://igg.me/at/unuiga it’s a 64bit Amlogic S905 Quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 with Mali-450 MP5 GPU, runs Remix OS 2.0 Android for productivity, with two options:
$30 Unuiga S905: 1GB RAM, 16GB Flash, 802.11n Wi-Fi
$45 Unuiga S905+: 2GB RAM, 32GB Flash, 802.11ac Wi-Fi
Early birds, first 100 orders get $5 discount. Add to that Shipping price and you may have to pay import duty when receiving the package, depending on which country you receive it at, it’s shipped worldwide from Shenzhen, China. Read more at http://igg.me/at/unuiga
Read more and order one at http://igg.me/at/unuiga
faytech touch devices in New York
faytech is a leading German manufacturer of touchscreen devices with their own manufacturing facilities in Shenzhen, China. Here is a 38-minute tour of faytech’s US headquarters in New York with managing founder Arne Weber, visiting Infotek, faytech’s maintenance and repair services servicing partner in Manhattan and MetroClick, faytech’s project development partner in Manhattan, and showing off several projects being deployed using faytech touch displays in New York:
– ButterflyMX Intercom System, an 11.6’’ intercom system produced in cooperation with ButterflyMX. Cyrus Claffey, the CEO of ButterflyMX, presents an already installed and operating system at one of the residential buildings in downtown New York.
– Christie & Co. Salon and Spa with the owner Lois Christie, one of the TOP 20 beauty salons in USA, tells how putting a faytech 55’’ Touchscreen PC Kiosk in their salons helps expand her business and encourage customers to engage using social media after their beauty procedure.
– Proof 7, one of the last remaining big printing companies in New York, uses faytech to improve the reliability of their service.
– Lexus Installation at Madison Square Garden, faytech devices are part of something luxurious and technologically advanced.
– Hercules installed in 400 Hercules laundry shops in New York, faytech touch devices are being used for faster more reliable customer support when a laundry machine stops working.
I filmed faytech several times before at their Shenzhen China factory:
3 months ago
1 year ago
2 years ago
faytech can deliver large stock of standard touch devices and they have the flexibility and competence to realize any touch device project. You can contact faytech at sales@faytech.com.
faytech website: http://www.faytech.com
faytech on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/faytechtouch
faytech on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/faytechshenzhen
7Gbit/s Wi-Fi using 802.11ad over 60Ghz by Qualcomm
Posted by – March 5, 2016
Qualcomm Atheros, Inc. shows off 802.11ad, the next generation Wi-Fi over 60Ghz, that enables data transfer speeds at up to 7Gbit/s. The 60 GHz signal cannot typically penetrate walls but can propagate off reflections from walls, ceilings, floors and objects using beamforming. When roaming away from the main room the protocol can switch to make use of the other lower Wi-Fi bands on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz at a much lower rate, both of which can propagate through walls. 802.11ad is supported in Qualcomm Snapdragon 820, Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Internet Processor (IPQ) 8064 reference designs combined with its QCA9500 802.11ad chipset. Letv’s first Snapdragon 820 smartphone will support it. New Wi-Fi Access points from Elecom, NEC and TP-Link support it, and Acer and Asus plan to release laptops with 802.11ad. SiBEAM, Inc., a Lattice Semiconductor company, and Peraso Technologies, Inc. will also deliver Adapters to the market.
Sharp Robohon speaks English at the Qualcomm booth at MWC 2016
Posted by – March 5, 2016
Sharp Robohon (which I previously filmed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiZSL3o8L7M) is Sharp’s vision for the future of the smartphone. A pocket-sized humanoid Robot, with built-in Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, LTE Sim card slot, it has a built-in projector, microphone, speaker. The concept is to use AI conversations to bring usefulness as a notification robot. I think Sharp needs to mass manufacture it, sell it worldwide for the price of an iPhone, and load all kinds of AI apps so it can be powered by Google, Amazon, Microsoft or anyone else who is making an AI voice assistant.
